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Customization drives many aspects of consumer goods and services—think about the personal photo on your debit card, the options on your car, or even the way you order your favorite sandwich. In addition to a variety of size, material, and color options, Versare's portable partitions provide a level of customization not found on rival room dividers. James Talbot from webuyanycar.com, the UK’s largest car-buying service, was looking for a partition that would provide an informative walk-through for customers and employees. He contacted Versare’s UK branch about our products, and we helped him choose our Room Divider 360. Talbot wanted to display a bright and charming illustration to guide customers through the webuyanycar.com service process. With the Room Divider 360, custom printing is an option, and with Talbot’s vector image we created a truly one-of-a-kind partition. But that wasn’t the only customization that Talbot wanted: he also requested the reverse side of the partitions serve as a magnetic whiteboard for brainstorming and developing ideas. The magnetic aspect would allow photographs, notes and other items to attach to it. We do what we can to please our customers, so we promptly assembled his partition the way he wanted it. According to James, the Room Divider 360 exceeded all of his expectations, providing the perfect product to suit his needs.

Working from home is the dream for many office and cubicle dwellers: no more commute, no dress code, and you already know you like the co-workers (yourself and possibly family or pets). But with the convenience of telecommuting come drawbacks. While you avoid the sounds that other people make in a traditional office environment, you may find that the sounds within your home—or home office, if you have a separate space—make concentration difficult. Those noises can also make meetings on the phone or in person unpleasant, particularly if they reverberate. Our Sherbet sound panels brighten home office walls while dampening sound Thankfully Versare has telecommuters covered with Sound Stones. These sound-dampening acoustic panels feature a premium construction not found on rival sound panels, which commonly feature fiberglass foam cores. Sound Stones utilize a 100% recyclable 2000-gram density nonwoven polyester to dampen sound in a more efficient and environmentally-friendly manner. With over 20 acoustical fabric colors to choose from, these sound panels can complement any home office decor. Our new fabric color, Sherbet, will make your walls pop and add warmth to your walls with a bright orange flair. Whether you're meeting with clients, conducting phone or web meetings, or simply trying to focus without the click-clack of your typing echoing off the walls, Sound Stones will enhance the serenity of your home office. Versare can't prevent cat steps on your keyboard, dog barks during phone calls, or noisy neighbors mowing their lawns, but we can offer a stylish and affordable sound-dampening solution to your home office space.

Event production companies cover multiple services for their clients, and in turn guests of those clients. In order to meet client expectations, these companies must produce approachable spaces that welcome customers yet lend themselves to employee motivation and focus. AlliedPRA of Atlanta approached Versare because they were moving into a new space and wanted to maximize its use. AlliedPRA’s custom destination management experiences include event production, incentive programs, authentic tours, transportation logistics, and meeting and conference management. Or, in their own words, they “create local destination experiences for meetings, incentives and events that move hearts, minds and businesses forward to deliver unforgettable moments.” The organization was looking to create private workstations while maintaining the open feel the new space's open atmosphere. Our DIY Hush Panel Cubicles provided a perfect solution for the event-planning company. With its tool-less, slide-and-go construction, office cubicles can be constructed by one person at a fraction of the time and cost of standard cubicles. This made the process of moving and setting up within the new office pretty painless for AlliedPRA, allowing the company to continue to focus on its clients vs getting distracted with setting up new office furniture. The plug-and-play nature of these cubes ensures easy installation, making them an ideal choice for creating instant workstation privacy. AlliedPRA chose durable woodgrain laminate panel options for an elegant and modern office aesthetic. Employees now have spacious and private workstations within the open office space. The ribbed polycarbonate windows provide visibility and allow light to flow freely throughout the room. Aside from one false start, the AlliedPRA team quickly and easily put the Hush Panel together. They also had a blast doing it. You might say that building the Hush Panel provided quite the teambuilding experience!Amy Johnson, president and owner of AlliedPRA Atlanta, worked with Versare to choose the perfect office partitions. “Everyone loves them,” Johnson said in her testimonial. “It was so funny when we were putting them together because the first four we tried to get exactly lined up and pushed down the poles. Then someone came in and said, “What if you put in the base and push one panel at a time?” and we were like, “OMG.” It was so much easier. One is easy, two harder, and four trying to match up is super hard. But [the correct way] was really easy.”

As organizations grow, sometimes the size of their programs surpasses the size of their physical space. During these transitional periods, before a new space is added, rooms must take on alter egos. For example, a meeting room might double as classroom or work space. In the case of the Cultural Preservation Department for the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, an event room needed to serve double-duty for the organization's museum space. Since the tribe doesn't yet have access to its own building for the museum space, the Cultural Preservation Department opted to share a large portion of its multi-purpose room for the museum exhibit. Since the space often featured events, it was necessary to find a portable room divider that could accommodate a changing room space. A temporary wall would help create a private area for the museum while being portable and compact enough to relocate or readjust the museum space if necessary. Enter Versare’s Room Divider 360, our most popular portable partition wall. With this folding divider, the organization was able to quickly create a portable wall that complements the colors in the event room and allows the event area to flow beautifully into the museum space. The large 25' width was chosen to provide ample coverage, while sound-dampening acoustical fabric panels provide a quiet and more private feel to the museum area. Now guests can comfortably and privately absorb artifacts from the rich history of the Shawnee people, even if the other part of the large space is being occupied. The Room Divider 360 “completely changes the flow of the room," says Kenny Glass of the Shawnee Tribe. "It was difficult to set up the museum when I would have to constantly move things for events. The portable wall has closed off the museum section a great deal, and I’m very happy with the outcome!” Further reading: https://www.estoo-nsn.gov/

The rise of tech startups in the early 2000s brought with it the rise of the open-concept office in the United States. According to Fortune Magazine, the plan was originally a 1950s German design that Americans were slow to adopt. Open offices are intended to cultivate an environment of cooperation and creativity, with ideas flowing freely and no walls to block them. Soon, the concept spread from startups to larger, corporate environments. A desktop privacy panel subtly conceals a workstation But with open offices come unique obstacles. While an open workstation layout is great for fostering teamwork for group projects and brainstorming sessions, employees focus at least half of their time on individual work. These offices can be full of distractions. With no auditory barriers, an open office environment can be noisier than traditional offices. And some employees find the lack of visual barrier to be distracting and detract from privacy - who hasn't been a little protective of their work space from wandering coworker's eyes? As open office spaces become more prevalent, so does the desire for workstation privacy. Work Forts allow you to create privacy while maintaining an open flow Versare offers a solution to distracted office workers: Work Forts. With these customizable desktop privacy partitions, employees can build a series of privacy panels to enclose or divide work spaces without impeding the open-office flow. With the two included brackets per Work Fort, each privacy panel can attach to a tabletop or desktop between 3/4" and 2” thick without the use of permanent hardware or damage to the surface. They can be easily attached—or detached—quickly, allowing work spaces to be altered to fit teams or projects of varying sizes. Enclose yourself affordably with these sound-dampening privacy panels Available in 3 shapes and over 20 acoustical fabric options, Work Forts provide a truly customizable way to provide workstation privacy or divide desk space. Work Forts provide high-quality noise reduction without impairing visibility, thus preserving the collaborative environment.

We know that libraries are a place to find books, movies, music, and a free internet connection, and that they’re places that require silence (cue the classic shushing librarian trope). But libraries are also often community event centers, offering activities and classes for people of all ages. Tamarack District Library in Lakeview, Mi holds some of its classes in its basement area, which is also used as a study area. The basement at Tamarack District Library is an open but small space, with dimensions that are difficult to fit. To solve this problem, the public library came to Versare seeking a room divider that was easy to open and to stow away when not in use. Tamarack also wanted the divider to be aesthetically pleasing and complement the décor that was already in the basement area. With the help of Versare's Design Consultants, Tamarack opted for the StraightWall Sliding Room Divider with woodgrain laminate panels. Because of the Straight Wall’s telescoping feature, the user can customize its length and cover specific lengths. The StraightWall also smoothly collapses down to one panel for simple storage. One of the five color options in the laminate material (though the StraightWall also comes in fabric and polycarbonate), Natural Cherry Woodgrain went flawlessly with the rest of the library basement’s interior. Now the library has a more versatile basement that can be used as an open space or divided, all without sacrificing aesthetics. Tamarack has been extremely satisfied with their new library divider and Versare’s customer service. "Thank you so much for taking the time to work with us to find the perfect divider to fit our needs - the Cherry Laminate was a great choice and fit our decor perfectly.”

Seven Mile Cafe provides a unique experience for coffee fans and brunch seekers in Denton, TX. The cafe's large menu, specialty coffees, and eccentric decor attracts a variety of clientele in the quiet college town. With several locations opening up in the North Texas area, the funky cafe has become a certified hit. Built within a converted house, the small restaurant features an open floor plan with high ceilings. While the close quarters provides a cozy atmosphere for customers, it presents an acoustical challenge when combined with the bustling kitchen only feet away from the dining area. Espresso machines and coffee grinders can also cause excess noise throughout the space, thus raising overall conversation levels and inhibiting the ambience. Seven Mile opted to strategically place several Versare Sound Stones throughout the small restaurant space. When placed by tables, these wall-mounted sound panels nullify noise and eliminate excess echo, helping to keep conversations closed-off. A variety of shapes allowed the sound panels to accommodate the layered wall design, with 4' x 1' panels able to squeeze in by door and window spaces. Conversation levels and excess room noise can now be better controlled with the sound panels, improving restaurant ambience and patron satisfaction. Available in over twenty fabric colors, these acoustical panels can integrate effectively within any cafe or restaurant. Unlike toxic fiberglass foam panels on the market these USA-made sound panels feature a premium nonwoven polyester construction rated at 0.65 NRC (Noise Reduction Coefficient). Keep your customers coming back by providing effective acoustical control to your restaurant.

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu houses art and artifacts from ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. Part of the institution’s mission is to “enhance understanding of art through innovative digitally driven research, shared for the benefit of the widest possible audience.” To meet this goal, the photography arm of the museum needed to partition off its large photography studio into two smaller, more flexible studios that could adapt to the subject being photographed. Tahnee Cracchiola, lead photographer at the Villa Imaging Studios came to Versare for a solution. Cracchiola shoots photographs of architecture and nature along the grounds of the Villa, but she also takes extensive photos of the works housed at the museum. Her studio needs to accommodate pieces of all sizes, from sculptures and mosaics to urns and jewelry. It also needs to offer light control so that the photographs are uniform and of high quality. A portable partition wall would provide the studio an ideal solution for dividing up the large area. Ultimately, Cracchiola chose the Quick-Wall (Folding) Portable Partition in black, a color that would absorb light rather than reflecting (something best left to angled reflectors and other photography equipment. With this folding studio partition, she can divide her studio space into two or more smaller studios, or arrange them to allow for one large studio. The mobile nature of the divider allows each space's size to be easily adjusted for varying project sizes. The photography studio can now hide bulky office furniture and photo equipment, prevent lighting from other areas of the studio from affecting each other during simultaneous shoots, and use the partitions as backdrops—or even hang backdrops from them due to the pushpin-accepting acoustical fabric panels. The Quick-Wall is a great, portable solution for photographers of all types, whether their studio stays the same or travels with them. Cracchiola is ecstatic over her recent portable partition purchase, and we're excited to see it looking good in a professional photography studio environment. “I purchased your partition screens to split my large studio space into two studios,” she said. “The screens will give me the mobility I need to create divided spaces quickly. We love your product.”

During tax season, many financial agencies find themselves in a competitive race to aid thousands of businesses and individuals looking for tax assistance. The ravenous demand for tax aid creates stiff competition for tax firms, encouraging organizations to get creative with their outreach efforts. A popular and successful method is to set up portable booths or cubicles within grocery stores or drug stores. This assertive effort provides consumers with an easy, immediate, and less intimidating method of receiving tax help. Plus, companies are able to advertise their brand with signage and an overall professional, helpful appearance. Solomon Robinson, Managing Partner of AdvantageTax, needed a solution for an extension of his business that was going to be set-up at a local supermarket. He required a portable cubicle solution that would provide his clients the privacy and security they have come to expect, just as if they were to walk into his office. Space and resources were limited, so Solomon needed a portable booth that would be flexible and adhere to the space requirements he was given. After many searches, he came across Versare's tool-less slide-and-go cubicles. Hush Panel DIY Cubicles are one-of-a-kind cubicle partition system. The plug-and-play design requires no tools for setup, meaning cubicle stations can be created in minutes by one person. These slide-and-go cubicles can be taken down or refashioned just as easily. Each cubicle panel slides into a set of posts, allowing future panels to be added or subtracted. The Hush Panel Cubicle System gave AdvantageTax the ability to create a quick, private, and professional atmosphere inside of a high-volume local supermarket. Each cubicle panel features a robust 2" thick construction which absorbs sound and limits any incoming sound around the portable booth. This creates a sound-dampening, comfortable, and private space for professionals to interface with potential clients and distribute literature. So far Solomon has been thrilled. “I have received a countless number of compliments from clients and colleagues," he says. "With the success Versare's cubicles have provided us, we plan on expanding this portion of our business next tax season.” Portable tax booths are quick and easy to set up. Click to see how easy it is to built a cubicle partition in minutes:

The cold chill in the air can only mean one thing - tax time is here. During tax season, many accounting agencies, financial firms, and other businesses may find themselves supplementing their existing workforce with temporary employees. This challenging time of the year can find accounting departments struggling to keep up with work and tax preparation, thus creating more duties for temp workers. These interim staff members support staff but oftentimes need areas to set up shop and get to work. Standard office cubicles are costly and time-consuming to set up, so a truly portable, temporary partition option is ideal for these seasonal employees. Hush Panel DIY Cubicles are a common remedy for office spaces during tax season. The tool-less nature and plug-and-play design of these lightweight cubicle partitions ensures an ease of use not found elsewhere. Each panel slides into the posts, allowing a wide variety of customizations. Simple cubicle shapes consisting of 3 panels can be easily and affordably expanded by building onto the existing posts. Multiple workstations can be fashioned in minutes, and by a single person, unlike most cubicles on the market, which require teams and tools for creation. Wall-mounted cubicle dividers in action The Hush Panel cubicle wall-mount bracket allows panels to be connected directly to the wall, providing even more office space-saving flexibility. Call centers can be quickly created, allowing temporary staff to integrate efficiently within financial firms, banks, and any other business departments welcoming new accounting professionals. Tax specialists and firms often set up temporary tax stations within grocery stores or drug stores. Hush Panel Cubicles allow quick creation of these workstations, so agencies and tax firms can comfortably set up temporary stations for customers. Since only one person is required for setup, businesses can save time and money while expanding their outreach. The 2" thick acoustical fabric panels provide excellent sound-dampening for privacy, while optional windows provide light and visibility. Versare's specialty is creating quick spaces at an affordable cost. Check out our Work Station Screens and full selection of portable partitions for more space-saving ideas. Let temporary employees work within your environment at no hassle with DIY cubicles.